THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPTION OF ECONOMIC-INEQUALITY .1. DESCRIPTIONS AND COMPARISONS OF RICH AND POOR PEOPLE
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPTION OF ECONOMIC-INEQUALITY .1. DESCRIPTIONS AND COMPARISONS OF RICH AND POOR PEOPLE
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1981.tb03076.x
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发表时间：
1981-01-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
LEAHY, RL
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作者：
LEAHY, RL
来自4个社会阶层的儿童和青少年被要求描述富人和穷人，并指出富人和穷人之间的差异和相似之处。反应分为类别的人的描述，包括外围（财产，外观和行为），中心（特点和思想）和社会中心（生活机会和阶级意识）类别。青少年强调中央和sociocentric类比年幼的孩子，反过来，强调周边的特点，在他们的描述。在描述富人和穷人时，下层和工人阶级的受试者比上层中产阶级的受试者更有可能提到生活机会和想法，而上层中产阶级的受试者比其他阶层的受试者更有可能提到穷人的特征。对富人和穷人的描述和比较通常与社会阶级的社会学维度无关。研究结果被解释的认知发展和功能主义理论的发展的社会概念。
Children and adolescents from 4 social classes were asked to describe rich and poor people and to indicate how the rich and the poor are different and similar to each other. Responses were classified into categories of person description, including peripheral (possessions, appearances and behaviors), central (traits and thoughts) and sociocentric (life chances and class consciousness) categories. Adolescents emphasized central and sociocentric categories more than younger children who, in turn, emphasized peripheral characteristics in their descriptions. Lower- and working-class subjects were more likely than upper-middle-class subjects to mention life chances and thoughts in describing the rich and the poor, while upper-middle-class subjects were more likely than subjects from other classes to mention the traits of the poor. Descriptions and comparisons of the rich and the poor were generally unrelated to sociological dimensions of social class. The findings were interpreted in terms of cognitive-developmental and functionalist theories of the development of social concepts.